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Problem with Text Input

Hello,
I've run into an odd problem with my HD and clueless on how to fix it. It seems that when I type using the compact qwerty and phone pad keyboards, pressing a letter key will instead produce a number. For example, if I wanted to type out an A letter, the number 2 comes out instead, M comes out as 6, T as 8, etc. Its always the little symbol above the letters for each key. However, the full qwerty keyboard works fine.
Any idea how I can get it back to normal? Any help would be much appreciated.

mickel198 said:
Hello,
I've run into an odd problem with my HD and clueless on how to fix it. It seems that when I type using the compact qwerty and phone pad keyboards, pressing a letter key will instead produce a number. For example, if I wanted to type out an A letter, the number 2 comes out instead, M comes out as 6, T as 8, etc. Its always the little symbol above the letters for each key. However, the full qwerty keyboard works fine.
Any idea how I can get it back to normal? Any help would be much appreciated.
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I had this same problem and I fixed it by disabling T9 mode in HDTweak.

Contact Dialer App

I have a question. I had the samsung with touch wiz, and you could just start typing in a number, or use the numbers for t9, and it would bring up all the relevant numbers.
For instance
Samantha has a number of 212.555.0101
You could type 212 and it would bring up samantha, or
you could type 725 and Samantha would come up.
Does anyone know of an app like that for this phone?

madjsp said:
I have a question. I had the samsung with touch wiz, and you could just start typing in a number, or use the numbers for t9, and it would bring up all the relevant numbers.
For instance
Samantha has a number of 212.555.0101
You could type 212 and it would bring up samantha, or
you could type 725 and Samantha would come up.
Does anyone know of an app like that for this phone?
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Dialer one has this functionality
https://market.android.com/details?id=kz.mek.DialerOne&feature=search_result

[Q] Keyboard limited to numbers only but no decimal point

The short: the numeric-only input field on an app does not allow the decimal point, yet works on other devices.
The long: I understand from using other Android devices that an app can request a keyboard input of only numbers, for example when the app only wants a numeric value. I am using an application called Open Data Kit and when I use it on the nook, a numeric only input field is allowing numbers from the nook's on-screen keyboard, but is totally ignores the decimal point. When I return to this numeric field from another screen, I see that my value of 39 has been replaced by 39.0 so now I can type in the tenths value that I could not before. Not sure if this is a problem of the application (cause the decimal point works on my Samsung S), nook, or android version.

Try another keyboard. That should fix it.

Like Hacker's Keyboard or GO Keyboard. Be sure to grab ES File explorer, set it to root, and copy the files to /system/app. Then choose your keyboard in Nook Color Tools.

Numeric keypad in Stock keyboard ?

Sometimes when entering data in a form, the standard stock samsung keyboard is replaced by a numeric pad - containing only large numbers in.
I would like to activate this pad at will, since it's a lot easier to enter numbers.
Anyone know it is possible?

el_el_ said:
Sometimes when entering data in a form, the standard stock samsung keyboard is replaced by a numeric pad - containing only large numbers in.
I would like to activate this pad at will, since it's a lot easier to enter numbers.
Anyone know it is possible?
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it is possible if the coder set the attribute for the text box, so that it display a numpad instead of ordinary keyboard.

Yes, that's what I thought.
It sure would be nice to activate it from the user side when needed...

On Nougat - how can I add a row of number to the keypad?

I've come from a Samsung which had a row of numbers above the qwerty keyboard which I found really helpful/convenient.
I googled how to do this for my Nexus 6p, on Nougat 7.0 and I can't find any obvious way in preferences or in the keyboard itself. Am I missing something or do I need to download a different keyboard?
Thanks once again for the help everyone.

AndroidUK2016 said:
I've come from a Samsung which had a row of numbers above the qwerty keyboard which I found really helpful/convenient.
I googled how to do this for my Nexus 6p, on Nougat 7.0 and I can't find any obvious way in preferences or in the keyboard itself. Am I missing something or do I need to download a different keyboard?
Thanks once again for the help everyone.
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I use swift key and I know they have it, not sure about the others, sorry.

Long press the comma in the Google keyboard, and tap the Settings gear. Select Preferences--> Custom input styles, then tap the + icon. Choose your Language, and for Layout select PC.

thanks to both of you
I'm trying out the PC layout. a bit crampt so might look at swift key.
thanks!

Before I was on Nougat MM google keyboard would give you a dedicated number row when entering a password. It was only when the cursor was in a password field. I thought that was odd, had never seen that before on a google keyboard. But that just means the keyboard has the functionality to have a dedicated number row and NOT be in the PC layout. I'm surprised that some dev hasn't figured out a way to have that row at all times.